The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 31, 1898, Page 13

o THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1898 18 THE METROPOLIS OF NEVADA RENO, March 29.—If all you know of Nevada has been learned from a car window, it will surprise you to hear of | the beauty and productiveness of the Truckee Valley ekl the eity | of Reno is located in winter | time, with the broad snugly en- 1 mountains, circled by the snow-topr cce River rushing Wwith the lovely Tr through on the W wn from its mountain source, e exhilarating Nevada alr like a tor to challenge every drop of blood one's veins, might pose as th ter tow the vall and the town flowers, a grow dim type of an ideal win- 1 summer, when 1 les in alfalfa— s embowered in trees and utiful mountains in the warm dis- a health and pleas- tural consequence of the unusual combination of attractions the for! v possesses. It is but fourteen ride from San Fran- | cisco. It lies in a valley, but an ele- | where one may benefit by ity of the mountains. Best situated in Nevada, and when a valley city possesses a Ne- vadan climate—the healthiest, the most inspir] in the world—and a fertility supposed to be exclusively Californian, she may well be inclined to throw a golden goblet into the sea to placate the jealous gods. Reno’s golden gobl fair treatment by th The fact that the goblet was not thrown voluntarily isevidently unknown lo gods, who, be- cheated, no doubt suppose Col ntington to be the agent of Reno in the matter. At all events that th natural resentment is stifled is evi ed by Reno’s accumu- is her right to ing pagan an lating wealth, the growth of her fame as a cc g great city, by the contentment er people and their trust in her futur “We made a mistake thirty years ) 3 e for st men in hen we d upon being known as produc silver alone. People have learned to think of D vada as the place whe ilver was once produced and sagebrush is now the sta le. S depreciation in d her attention her other re- years we have n the devel made such a ment of our St might more p State, or a s State, or a f State. ! be called a cattle St or a dairy State than a silver se, Reno is our nat- N o was incorporated lature of oved March ity on the line fic Railroad between ornia, and Ogden, ¢ and continu- inception and dst of the richest ising country . nd the y M rces are cultural than minus of ding south with its c also of the N. nding north el It is t t of of the State Hos- and of the At the gen- | ast 1300 votes imated population is ed valuation i con- Its total w and very ervative basis of valuation to have a al ownership of light- g fac and water suppl; The ectors of Reno by a vote of four to voted in favor of bondi um of $130,( 000 for an The cons: tion act ha: preme Cou now advert bonds. In g the receipt ity Coi g the city ter light plant. | incorpora- the Su- Council is for Reno's president of t 3 dati Other things v ed later. Bu tance that a 1l be attempt- first impor- own its own best and the che people. R The best he gives to ing a sup- to our people’s ply of pure wat comfort and i at hand, and with th power going to waste the Truckee, our v should be the fine the energy of and light plants t in the West. Ana that we hope to make them. We shal get our water from the Truckee fur-| ther up than the present water com- pany does. It will be filtered ana piped to town. There will be no oper ditch to catch the seepage from thel ntral Pacific. | | them alive hills and no unfenced reservoir. Four- fifths of the people in Reno are in fa- vor of municipal ownership. You can Stop one man, but you can't stop the people. Reno has done the cleverest, the most practical and the most far- | reaching act of her political life, and she will feel the benefit of it for years to come.” The largest sheep owner in Nevada values the 40,000 sheep he possesses at a quarter of a million dollars. He is enthusiastic over the prospects of Ne- vada in general and of Reno in par- ticular. ‘People do not realize,” said he, “the proportions that the sheep industry has assumed here. Three years ago we shipped from Reno 20,000 sheep to Chi- cago. The following year we shipped 60,000. And last r 100,000. Deale there were not anxious to buy of us at first. They gave us only $1 25 a head for our lambs. Now they give us $2 50 a head, and are glad to do business with . We get the very best prices for Nevada lambs that are paid by such firms as Clay, Robinson: & Co. of Chicago and by others in Kansas City 1 ‘;agfljnst us. Still within the last three| That the Nevada State University is vears freight charges on sheep have | been reduced 50 per cent, so that the sheep men are making money and other trades feel the effect of course. “We need a laree market. Only one- fifth of our sheep are sent to San Fran- cisco. A little village of 300,000 people, |like San Francisco, is too small to ab- | sorb the products of so great an in- dustry as has developed in Nevada. | There are 700,000 sheep on the hills of | Nevada to-day. The nutritious grasses which our soil produces are capable of feeding two and a half millions of sheep. { “Reno owes her present prosperity— and she will be still more benefited in the future—to the fact that she is so situated as to be the point from which | all shipping will be done. “But the time will come when the banks of the Truckee will be lined with woolen mills. The only reason that has not been done already is on account of railroad rates. We made arrangements with the railroads to re- duce the rate on wool from Reno to Philadelphia from $250 a hundred to $150. The rates lasted just twenty- | | and girls of Nevada is not to be found. located at Reno is at once a cause and an effect of Reno’s prosperity. Finer raw material for the making of su- perior men and women than the boys Reno's excellent schools and State Unl!- versity are the factories in which the ! change takes place. The university is really but ten or eleven years old. It was removed from the eastern part of the State to Reno in 1886. At that time there were but forty-five students, two members of the faculty and one-third of the first building erected on the university campus—which has an area of forty acres and is beautifully located on an eminence overlooking the city— sufficed to accommodate them. Now there are 450 students enrolled; there is a faculty of twenty-four professors, and the nine buildings will soon be too few to provide for the wants of the young men and women who are flocking from all parts of Nevada, from California, Oregon, Idaho, Texas and even as far East as Ohio and New York, to pursue their studies here. The president of the Nevada State students. The skill that the young men of to various stock raisers from Cali- | have been deemed out of the question acquire in the carpenter and the ma- chine shop enables them to do most of the repairing and building required on the grounds. Young women are wherever possible with such work as ! Rockies,” saia the elever manager of jthe State University. typewriting, copying and housework. A general assembly of all the students | wonderful natural advantages of this | that of Denver. of the university and of all the mem- State and particularly of Truckee Val- | Nevada bers of the faculty is held every Wednesday at 11:45 a. m. This is the | through the winter, has it been neces- |have in Nevada—: fornia to Kansas, at prices | from $125 to $500. | | “The reason that Nevada owns and | ranging | | the Sparks ranch, “is because of the iley. Not once in all this year, all| a year or two ago. e S “This is a wholesale town,” sald the favored : breeds the finest cattle west of the | president of the Board of Regents of “Its location couldn’t be improved. It is better than All the produce of is bound to pass through And everything that we from the president of Reno's gat lecture hour of the week, and is under | sary to shelter the cattle, But the main | our university to the onions that grow the special direction of the president of the university. These weekly lectures are given not only by the members of | depend upon an uncertainty. The farm- | produce. the faculty, but also by men and wo- men of special eminence in particular | reason of our prosperity is that, unlike | { the cattlemen of California, we do not ]ers and the cattlemen of California are | ?wstching the heavens in suspense. If down at Glendale—is of the best. You needn't take Nevada’s word, as to the Just go to the ones who aro most competent to judge, and who are hardest to suit—the buyers. San Fran- fields of study and travel and business | it doesn’t rain their interests are com- | cisco's wholesale butchers keep agents enterprise. There are 5000 bound vol- umes in the university library and 4000 pamphlets. The university has had a remarkable growthi in this practically first ten vears of its life. Plans for the con- struction of new buildings and f-r the extension of the university’s influence are being considered and if the next ten years shall see even as great an improvement as the last Nevada's State University will be one of the recog- | promised. In Nevada we have a sure | thing. We irrigate. It is not the heav- ens we rely on, but the streams and the | SnOw you can see over there on the | Sierras which, melting, will add to the | volume of water in the rivers and, inci- | dentally, to our prosperity. “A third reason for our pre-eminence is that cattle here do not require to be | | fed grain, as they do in the East, for | | instance. All the alfalfa required for | | the cattle on this ranch has been raised | | | I VIEW OF THE CITY Ok RENOLOGING NOGEREEIN T i and Omaha. Wh Nevada mutton is raised anywhere States. Our lambx the conditions m possible sheep-raising country. Many of the cattle men here are quitting the cattle business to invest in sheep. You see Nevada is an ideal countr, for the sheep ma The browse here can’t be equaled. We never suffer from drought. When the winter comes the sheep come down from the mountains a feed on the deserts here. Why, last winter we lost not 2 per cent of our sheep. As to the wool, Nevada pro- duces wool that is particularly fine in The shrinkage is great, but ,000 pounds of wool sent out of arly are of a quality that is un- Three years. ago we shipped 3000 sheep as far as Glasgow; shipped and they arrived in good on and were sold at top 3 Nevada men will not accept anything but top prices. And why should they? They are so situated, the climate of Ne- vada is such, its natural advantages as a sheep-raising country are so great that the Nevada sheep-raiser is in a position to dictate terms—to all except the railroad. You see Nevada is still groaning under the discrimination | ply because r than in the Ur fatter four hours. The commission mer- chants of San Francisco wouldn’t have it The; want all our wool to be pped San Francisco. 0 now if we ship wool direct to Philadelphia we pay $250 a hundred; if we send it to San Francisco and from there Philadelphia costs us $180. “We arranged to have a scouring mill, but we were informed that if by scouring the wool we reduced its bulk about two-thirds, the railroad would maintain its profits by increasing the rates 300 per cent. We can send a carioad of potatoes for $2750. If that same car be filled with scoured wool we must pay 3 cents a pound. But this state of affair: , cannot last. And that despite such discrimination Nevada's sheep men are So Prosperous and the city of Reno is doing so much business are the best evidences in the world of the great resources of a State that was supposed to be bankrupt when its mines gave out. “The sheep business is paying splend- idly, and as every lamb that's sola, every sheep that’s sheared pays its tax in money spent or men employed in Reno, the future of the city which re- lies not on this one industry, but on | many, is assured.” i of Nevada. He is a man whose attain- | ments and whose individuality are such | as to make his influence felt not only | upon the young men and women who | come under his immediate charge, but | upon the community in general; which | | has learned to value the presence of a | man so cultivated, so human, so full of | injerest in practical affairs and So reddy and able to help his fellow men. | The School of Mines in the Nevada University is second only to that of| Columbia College. As is fitting, much | attention has been given to this de-| partment «of the university, and stu-| | dents from all over the great western | mining territory come to Reno to take | this special course. The university | maintains a dining hall, where the best | of Truckee Valley’s rich products are served at a rate within the reach of | students of limited means. For the benefit of such as these, too, scholar- ships are provided; one, in particular, by the Century Club of Reno, an or- ganization of over a hundred women. Even the corporate heart of the rail- | road has been touched, so that over | every railway in the State students are | entitled to half rates. Almost all of | the work in and about the university | buildings and grounds is now done by | University is the David Starr Jordan | nized great institutions of learning ln] right here in Truckee Valley, and at| the West. | One of the possessions upon which Reno prides herself is the Sparks ranch, four miles from town. This mil- lionaire cattleman came to Nevada from Texas about four years ago. Mr. Sparks’ specialty is in dealing in the finest, choicest breeds. On his ranch there are 300 pure-bred Hereford cattle—cattle which he values at from $40,000 to $50,000. The reputation of the cattle on the Sparks ranch is such that | Cecil Palmer, the noted animal painter, has come to Reno, solely for the pur- pose of sketching the great Earl of Shadeland, the Duke of Fulton and others of these mammcth, white-faced, blue-blooded bulls, whose mighty backs mounted on short legs look like ani- mated billiard tables. Valuable billiard | tables they are, too. Mr. Sparks values | | the three thousand pounds of bone and | muscle that make up one of those four- footed aristocrats at least a dollar a pound. And $5000 wouldn’t buy the pa- triarch of the herd. The Sparks ranch has become the breding-place of the West. Since Sep- tember one hundred and twenty-five pure-blooded calves have been disposed | least $2000 worth of hay has been sold, | which we didn’t need. “We have just received fifty Shrop- shire sheep and seven fine Herefords from Engiand, where Mr. Sparks sent an agent for thispurpose. Those Persian | sheep, you see, weigh 300 pounds, fully; | more than any of the Shetland ponies | in the next field. We are raising deer, | also. Nevada was made to be the nat- | ural breeding-place of the finest ani- | mals. | “‘Of ecurse, you know Mr. Sparks’ in- terest in cattle is not confined to this one ranch in Washoe County. Out on the range there are from 40,000 to 50,000 | head, which are provided with pure- | bred 'sires from here, where, of course, | we keep a bovine blue book. We do | | business with Kirke Armour of Chi- | cago in dispcsing of our beef. “Nothing could be in better shape than the interests of the cattlemen of Nevada. All the surpius stock of alfalfa of the farmers about Reno has been consumed, and as a consequence the bankers of Reno say that the farmers in the valley are paying| up old debts which their creditors never | hoped to ccllect. In return, the banks are lending money more freely. Loans | | are made to-day in Reno which would in Reno six months of the year buying our beef. They tell you it's the best to be had. The California cattle men want the quarantine line lowered. Mil- ler & Lux alone want to bring into this State 10,000 head of cattle. Why? Be- cause the Nevada ranges are covered with grass that’s unequaled. Reno has Jjust shipped a carload of apples to New York. Why? Because they're the best. Because Nevada's snows and moun- tains have given that sweet, sharp juiciness that make Honey Lake ap- ples the finest in the world. Our ber- ries are the best. There’s no butter so sweet as Nevada's. The best ho- tels in San Francisco appreciate this. We supply them. Our potatoesy are the best, and we get the best prices for them. As to onions, there are hun- dreds of tons of them ripening now down on the river bottoms just at the right time, for us; just when all other onions are out of season. The conse- quences are that we get $40 a ton for them. “Reno is the natural depot for meat, for everything that Nevada produces. She has grown -teadily, continually. New buildings are going up right along. With such advantages as ours we should be a city of 30,000 people. And we will be. Nothing could have kept us back, except railroad rates. And the end of that is coming. Other roads build up the country through which they pass. The Central Pacific will pass into other hands, or we'll get a competing line and then there will be ten times the amount of shipping done over the road to compensate for the lowering of rates. The past two years have been splendid ones for Nevada. Reno’s time is coming. It can’t be stopped.” The Nevada Hospital for Mental Dis- eases is a fine building, excellently planned, well adapted for the care of Nevada’s insane. It is beautifully sit- uated about two miles from town on the banks of the Truckee. The grounds are very pretty and all through the spring and summer and late in the win- ter a great proportionof the inmates are to be seen seated upon the lawns or walking along the roads, accompaniea by attendants. The hospital can ac- commodate 225 patients. At present there are 193 cared for. . There are 200 acres of land belonging to the hospital now under cultivation, and nearly one- half of the patients are employed in one capacity or another, as tailors, about the grounds or in domestic oc- cupations. The hospital building it- self is steam heated and provided with all possible comforts for the unfortu- nate people who are kept here. There are - sunny, carpeted reading rooms, where the more rational gather. Twice a month religious services are held and every week there are dances in the hall. A number of patients, male ana female, have even visited the State Falr, which takes place yearly in Reno. e It is said that ninety-nine one-hun- dredths of the water power of the Truckee goes to waste. The Reduction Works, for whose use 5000 horsepower is drawn from the Truckee and re- turned without encroaching upon any one’s rights, are idle at present, owing to the depreciation of silver. The man who owns them is also the proprietor of Reno's flour mill, which he has re- built three times in the past twelve years, ana which supplies the people of the vicinity with 18,000 barrels of flour a year. The time will come when the Truckee will be required to do all the work of which its turbulent energy is capable; when mills will be as numer- ous on either side of tie lovely river as are now the creameries, with which the valley is dotted. One-third of the people of Reno are faterested in the Union Building and | Loan Association, holding from one to not more than fifty shares of its $100,- 000 worth of stock. The Reno Real Es- tate and Investment Company has put up a number of fine buildings in town. The Inyo Marble Works have their out- lev a few miles above Reno. PR . The social life of Reno has always been most pleasant. The city pos- sesses a club almost unique in the priv- ileges allowed to lady members. The club house erected in the prettiest part of Pcwning's Addition—one of the many enterprises 1ue to the energy of the man who, while in health, was Reno’s most public-spirited citizen—is used by both sexes; and the pleasantest as well as the most select social gath- erings have been held here. Reno’s bi- cycle club numbers more than a hun- dred memebrs. iy e g A new industry has sprung up of late in Reno, which is a source of amuse- ment as well as of profit to Renoites. Just now this city is engaged in marry- ing California ccuples who ~vade the California laws as to marrying within a year after divorce. Reno has become known as Cupid’s town; and that the Riverside Hotel has had to build an ad- dition of twenty rooms lately is testi- mony that the marriage business, like other Reno enterprises, is booming. -_—— e HOFF BECOMES BADLY TANGLED The Alleged Slayer Mrs. Clute Again on the Stand. Contradicts Several State- nts He Had Previously Made. | Positively Denies | eman ective Seymour Tried to date the Defendant as on the witness stand during the greater part | ergoing a rigid cross-ex- | tant District Attorney zed murderer of Mrs. Clute was less ated than he was | Tuesday, and devotea his energies to | avolding th ftly prepared for | Hm by the Several times | 1 fidEngere tfall and two or | contradicted his pre- ri Du the Indignitie ng the rnoon, while recounting Enities he charged Detective Sey- mour with heaping upon him, Hoff be- came somewhat dramatie when &galn | murder the of |t | he found laying matting in one of the de: ing how the officer had shoved the coupling pin into his face and used vile language to him. The defendant was asked by Mr. Hosmer to show the jury just how Seymour acted, and grasping the murderous weapon flourished it about in much the same manner as he did the previous day in his direct examination. The District Attorney, during the morn- ing, had Hoff retell the incidents that oc- curred at the Clute residence, 803 Guer- rero street, while he was there on the day the murder was committed. Hoff said when he went up stairs Mrs. Clute apologized for disappointing him, but said the confusion of moving had inter- fered with her settled plans. He was questioned about the man he saw putting | down some matting and whom, he_ testi- fied Tuesday, he had left in the house, Yesterday Hoff contradicted himself and said the man went down stairs. To all of Hosmer’s attempts to get him to say whether the man returned to the house, Hoff evaded a direct reply. Finally the District Attorney asked: ““Are you willing to swear that the man you saw go down stairs came back again while you were there?” “I am willing to swear to the truth.” “Answer my question. Are you willing to swear to that?” “I am not.” That was the first flat contradiction of his own testimony. Hoff then entertained the jury by illustrating how he received the cut on his hand, claiming it was caused by a tack In a carpet. Hosmer next asked him if he had ever stated to the Chief of Police that when he reached the house he found a short, thick set man who was evidently Mrs. Clute’s guest. “I never made such a statement,” Hoft declared with emphasis. Later on he de- nied having told the Chief that the man rooms left the house before he did. The shorthand npotes taken by Otto Heyne- man, the Chief’s stenographer, show that Hoft did make both statements. From that time until the noon recess and for a_considerable time during the afternoon Hosmer plied the defendant with questions about the treatment he had receiv from Detective Seymour during their visit to the scene of the following day. Hoff unhesi~ tatingly repeated the harsh language he had on direct examination charged Seymour with using, and also described how the officer shook him by the collar and in other ways tried to intimidate him. When he {llustrated how Seymour ap- proached him with the coupling pin Hoft raised his voice to a high pitch. Hosmer asked if Seymour spoke in that tone. ; only louder.” an you show'us how loud he spoke?" Oh, no; my lungs are so bad now that if 1 tried T would break down and prob- ably die right here.” After some further questions about Sey- mour's conduct Mr. Hosmer dismissed Hoff, and Attorney Schooler called John Donald, proprietor of the Lindell House, | 1031 Howard street. The defense evidently | expected to show that at the hour of the | murder, between 4:30 and 5 o'clock on the afternoon of December 15, Hoff was at the house, but witness was not there at the time, and when he attempted to tell what Eugene Welton, a former employe | of his. who is now in Alaska, had told him about it, an objection shut him off. H. Heneker, a grocer at Franklin | and McAllister streets, was next called, | and also attempted to give some héarsay testimony, but an objection stopped him, too. and the defense rested its case. Mr. Hosmer then had Hoff's carpet bag and the coupling pin weighed, the former tipping the scales at 16% pounds and the later at 5 pounds, after which he called | Otto Heyneman, Chief Lees’ official sten- | ographer, in rebuttal. Witness with the aid of his notes corroborated certain statements attributed to Hoff during his examination by the Chief, and which the defendant a short” Uime previously had denied having made. Hoff’s testimony regarding Seymour’s rough treatment and harsh language was read to witness and he positively denied that the oflicer talked or acted in the manner attributed to him. Witness ac- companied Hoff and the detective to 803 Guerrero street and heard and saw every- thing. Attorney Schooler took Heyneman in hand for cross-examination and ques- tioned him minutely about what occurred while they were out to the flat. When witness denied that Hoff had conducted them to the and said that when they started to g0 $uere Hoft for a mo- ment was at a loss to find the stairs, the | attorney became somewhat excited, for | this was another contradiction of his cli- ent's testimony. But Heyneman could not be shaken In his testimony, and when Schooler concluded his cross-exam- ination court adjourned until this morn- ing. WILL OF CHAFRLES HANSON. He Directs That a Pa:r‘t of His Large Estate Be Held in Trust. The will of Charles Hanson, the cap- italist, who died on the 2lIst inst., was filed for probate vesterday by Attorney W. Hanson's will directs that one-half of his estate go to his widow, | Charlotte Hanson, and diSposes of the re- mainder as follows: The holder of a note for $13,000, dated May 15, 1865, promising to pay that amount two days prior to his death, is to be paid by the executors on presentation of the note. The name of the holder is not given. Grace Merritt is to receive $5000 and H. C. Chese- brough, of Oakland, employed as man- ager by the‘testator, is to receive $25,00° and one-fourth of the stock owned by him in the Tacoma Mill Company. The executors are further directed to pur- chase a plot in Cypress Lawn Cemetery and to erect a monument not to exceed $15,000, also to have the remains of a son and daughter, buried in Redwood City, removed and interred in the plot. The remainder of the stock owned by the de- cedent in the Tacoma Mill Company is to be held in trust by H. C. Chesebrough, Samuel G. Murphy and William H. Jor- dan_for five years after the distributiox of the estate. If at the expiration of that time the only living son of the testator is alive the stock, together with $1000, is to go to him. IQ the event of the son's death, the stocK is to be delivered to the widow and if both of them are de: Chesebrough is named as the benefici- ary. The will concludes with a direction that the trustees be each paid $6000 per annum, during the existence of the trust. Boat aoa nAmbeas” xsuiog. rO will fo serve without bonds., C. Chese- of the| RUDE CONDUCT OF AN OFFICER Charge Preferred Against Policeman T. W. Marlowe. J. H. Scheel, a Property Owner, Is the Complaining Witness. Entered Scheel’s House and Tried to Force Him to Raise a Disturbance. The position of Policeman T. W. Mar- lowe Is not at present an enviable one. Besides lying under the stigma of cow- ardice at the time Lieutenant Burke was shot by T. P. Haynes a week ago, he will also have to answer a charge before the Police Commissioners of unofficerlike conduct, to be preferred by a citizen. Yesterday morning J. H. Scheel of 132 Henry street called at police headquar- ters and asked to see Chief Lees. The Chief was out, and Scheel announced that he wanted to prefer a charge against ceman Marlowe. did not Polit 4 to_ take of the policemanta sonduats” ~ notice Scheel in telling his story, “till I read in The Call this morning the account of his con- duct when poor Burke was shot last Wednesday. I then made up my mind that the public should know what sort of a man he is. About January 10 last he came to my house, accompanied by a neighbor named Thompson. He had no warrant and he told my daughter that he wanted to arrest me. He made use of such language to her it was lucky for him I was not present at the time. He told her that two of my sons should be in San Quentin and that they were a disgrace to the neighborhood. My daughter sent for me, and when 1 came in he beg.n to question me in an insolent and overbear- ing manner. He asked me what 1 worked at and I told him it was not necessary for me to do any work as I was able to iive off the income from my property. He then asked me other insolent questions, his evident purpose being to get me to create a disturbance, so that he could place me under arrest. “I kept my temper, as I did not want to get mixed up in any quarrel with him or with Thompson. He rudely kept his hat on all the time he was in the house, and conducted himself altogether in a manner unbecoming a guardian of the peace. I was glad when he went away, as I was afraid of losing control of my temper. At the time I thought of laying a complaint before the Commissioners, but decided for the sake of peace to let it go. Now, however, I think I would be doing wrong in not making the charge against him.” After telling his story Scheel was ad- vised to prefer a sworn complaint and lodge it with the clerk of the Commis- sfoners and the case would come up at the next meeting. He promised to do so at nce. Oeheel states that he Is a property owner, the father of a large family and was never in trouble in bis life. He said that Thompson's wife made com- laints about being annoyed by two of gls sons, but personally he knew nothing about it. R S— The Scott Will Contest. The hearing of tha Contest over the|te probating of the will of Mrs. Angelia R. Scott, who practically disinherited her husband, was resumed vesterday before Judge Coffey. The testimony introduced tended to show that the deceased was jealous of her husband and that she was of unsound mind. One of the witnesses testified that Mrs. Seott had offered her $200 if she would so arrange it that her husband might be caught in a com- promising position. e HUBBARD FORGIVEN. Immigration WCommissioner North Has Caused the Dismissal of the Captain of the S. N. Castle. United States Commissioner Heacock yvesterday held an examination into the charge preferred against Captain H. H. Hubbard of the schooner S. N. Castle of having landed an immigrant without no- tifying the Immigration Commissioner as required by law. v The testimony showed that the captain had fai] to send a manifest to the Im- migration Commissioner and that he had surreptitiously landed a lady passenger, a native of Hawaii. The captain pleaded ignorance of the law, and upon his prom- ise not to repeat the offense Commission- er North moved that the charge be dis- missed. which was accordingly done. A similar charge against Captain Jack- son_of the brigantine Tropic Bird for landing eighteen natives of France in the same unlawful manner is pending. —_————— Baldwin Grotto Concerts. The trial of William Bogen, president of the Baldwin Grotto Company, on a charge of violating the license laws by not taking out a concert hall license was held before a jury in Judge Low's court yesterday afternoon. After hearing the evidence and the arguments of counsel the jury re- tired, but were unable to agree upon a verdict and were discharged. Nine were for acquittal and three for conviction. The case was continued until to-morrow be again set,